PowerColor Introduces X1950 PRO Silence Edition

PowerColor decided to
introduce one of the last Radeon X1950 PRO cards on a market and the company decided
to make a difference.
The company introduced
a passively cooler X1950 PRO card running at 575 MHz core and 1380 MHz memory. It
decided to use Arctic cooling S1 and this massive passive chunk of metal is able
to cool this card, without any noise. The card is equipped with 256 MB GDDR 3
memory and has 36 Pixel Shaders. It also supports Vivo, HDCP and works well
under Windows Vista.

This specially
designed silent cooler features four heat pipes, special voltage regulator heat
sink memory cooling and taller fins. The passive part of the card is huge but
there is no any noise out of the cooler. The S1 based cooler doesn’t have any
active, moving parts or fans. The temperature stays around 63 Degrees Celsius while
the reference cooler can only do 67 Degrees Celsius. The passive part beats the
ATI's reference cooling, now that is something to be proud off.

This cooler
actually has four heat pipes to help it with a hard task of cooling. The
samples are available now and the card should debut at Cebit.